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Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.

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  1. a. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation.
  2. a. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.
  3. a. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
  4. adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
  5. 1. Giving offense to the conscience or moral feelings; exciting reprobation; calling out condemnation. Nothing scandalous or offensive unto any. Hooker. 2. Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice. 3. Defamatory; libelous; as, a scandalous story.
  6. j:100 s giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation